Professor, Columbia University
Centurion, 1918–1944
Born 18 September 1863 in New York (Brooklyn), New York
Died 31 May 1944 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Gonzalez Lodge and George Meason Whicher
Elected 7 December 1918 at age fifty-five
Century Memorial
Nelson Glenn McCrea. [Born] 1863. Professor, author. For 56 years teacher of Latin at Columbia, professor since 1903; prominent in his university’s affairs; Chairman of the Council on Research in the Humanities; long active in Phi Beta Kappa and in the College Entrance Examination Board; author of a volume of addresses “Literature and Liberalism,” recording his devotion to the classical ideals; exact scholar, inspiring teacher, loved by all who knew him.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945